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FYI and Action Alerts – Week Ending September 30, 2005

Dr. Carruthers met with representatives from the House and Senate on Katrina. Please review this Legislative and Field Report that provides critical information to be shared with congregations. Click here to view the Katrina Report.

A National Public Radio show on the Black Church’s response to Katrina.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4860629

October 31 – Nov 4 - An international conference on Black Theology and Womanist Theology is being hosted by Dr. Dwight Hopkins(University of Chicago School of Divinity and Linda Thomas (Lutheran School of Theology). Registration is free and open to the public.

http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/theology_in_dialogue/

Don’t forget to register for the 2006 conference. For those interested, the approved seminary course is: Organizing for Justice in the Age of Prophetic Witness and Pentecostal Revival. Click here to view the course description.

 

"Our People Suffer for Lack of Knowledge"

The federal budget process and the programs funded are an ethical statement about what and who matters.

Download Budget Impact on African Americans (58Kb pdf)

Download Pastor's Page on Federal Budget Cuts (47Kb powerpoint)

Download Wal-Mart Fact Sheet Document (87Kb pdf)